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Friday, January 13, 2012

There's a story behind the Title.

You maybe wondering where the title came from. Well back when i was about twelve and my buddy Anthony and I had learned that there was a great big world out there to explore on a bicycle. So one day Anthony, Me and my neighbor at the time Steve took off on our bikes and came across BJ's Country Corner. BJ's was located just south of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad on Ardmore Ave. The building still stands today but BJ's is long gone. BJ's was a curio shop. Today he probably could have a pretty succesful business being that antiques, comics, and other oddities that filled this place seems to have become popular today. BJ was a little ahead of his time. BJ was also a little bit eccentric. To the point of there being rumors of him being a bit of a pee-pee toucher. I never witnessed any of these acts but he was a little weird. BJ's always had old Hot Rod Magazine, Rod & Custom, Hop Up, Motor Trend, and others dating back to 1950. He also had a bunch of comics. Not the comics you would normally see. It was here I found Hot Rod Comics. There was several different titles. Like Hot Wheels, CARToons, And Hot Rods & Racing Cars with Clint Curtis and The Road Knights. They where great. And back then they didn't cost an arm and a leg. I paid a dollar a piece for most of them. I still have the ones I bought at BJ's Including the one at the top of the page. I find them once in a while at the flea market or a swap meet but there not a dollar a piece anymore. The last one i bought cost me 15 bucks! So that where i got the title from. I figured this is kind of where all the madness started so it just made sense. Check back later.

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